Confused Scientific Flailing

do NOT smoke weed beside them

Look it’s me

(decapods are the marine crustacean group with ten legs- true crabs, lobsters, hermit crabs, robber crabs, mantis shrimp, prawns, slipper lobsters, and all of their infinite assorted relatives in the deep blue sea)

The interesting thing about carcinization is not that widely disparate lineages keep evolving into crabs, it is the remarkable specificity of the "crab" body plan that has evolved repeatedly within the true crab+anomuran group, primarily that the carapace is wider than long, the abdomen is extremely reduced in size and tightly folded under the body, and there is a tendency to walk sideways. Trying to find examples of carcinization in other groups of animals by loosening your definition of "crab" to include animals without this specific combination of features is missing the point. Animals are no more likely to evolve to be vaguely crab-shaped than they are to evolve to be vaguely shaped like any other animal.

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning

If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians